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Military veterans lobbying for an end to federal classification of marijuana as a lethal substance with no redeeming medicinal value may be closer to that goal than ever before, given the midterm election results.

The report offered little support for the Trump administration’s assertions that its revised war strategy, announced in August 2017, is bringing the Afghan government and the Taliban insurgency closer to peace and reconciliation.

Hundreds of crews and volunteers were searching the ash and rubble where homes stood before flames engulfed the Sierra foothills town of Paradise, Calif., and surrounding communities, killing at least 77 people in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century.

U.S.-born Kremlin foe Bill Browder and other opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin have complained that Russia has tried to use Interpol against them. If a Russian is elected as its new president, it could encourage Moscow to intensify attempts to hunt down its critics abroad.

Military veterans lobbying for an end to federal classification of marijuana as a lethal substance with no redeeming medicinal value may be closer to that goal than ever before, given the midterm election results.

More than 18 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $500 million have arrived at Port Everglades. The haul, that was offloaded Thursday afternoon, is the result of eight U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepting 15 different smuggling vessels and more than 50 smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America during the past month.

More than 18 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $500 million have arrived at Port Everglades. The haul, that was offloaded Thursday afternoon, is the result of eight U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepting 15 different smuggling vessels and more than 50 smugglers in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America during the past month.

Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin and Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human explorations and operations, said after a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station that their agencies plan to collaborate on developing a moon-orbiting outpost.

The roughly 5,800 active-duty troops sent to locations along the U.S.-Mexico border will spend Thanksgiving in Texas, Arizona, and California, but they are expected to return home in time for Christmas, Pentagon officials said Monday.

President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his assertion that the United States should have caught Osama bin Laden more quickly, claiming in a tweet that he had warned of the al-Qaida leader in his book before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Military veterans lobbying for an end to federal classification of marijuana as a lethal substance with no redeeming medicinal value may be closer to that goal than ever before, given the midterm election results.

NASA is considering selling seats on the spacecraft that will ferry its astronauts to the International Space Station, offering rides to the public while opening another line of revenue as the agency attempts to broaden its appeal.

James Gerrow, lawyer for Katelyn McClure, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that her former boyfriend was “calling the shots” in the suspected scheme that resulted in criminal charges last week against the two as well as homeless former Marine Johnny Bobbitt.

The Pentagon said Monday that remains accounted for in September are those of Army Pfc. John Martin, of Saratoga, N.Y., who was reported missing in action in 1950 after his unit was attacked by Chinese forces.

The complaint filed Monday argues that the appointment of Matthew Whitaker violates the Constitution because he has not been confirmed by the Senate and asks a judge to prevent Whitaker from serving as head of the Justice Department.

The installation of movable, wire-topped barriers threatens to complicate life for Mexicans using San Ysidro, where about 110,000 people enter the U.S. every day in 40,000 vehicles. Long lines backed up in Tijuana, where many people have to cross the border to work on the U.S. side.

Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for more than a week after the fire sparked in Butte County, Sheriff Kory Honea announced Saturday night.

Florida counties had until noon to file official results with the state following a weeklong machine-and-hand recount that had triggered allegations of fraud and several lawsuits. State officials will post the official results on Tuesday.

Chelsey Poisson's hypothesis was that between pre- and postdeployment, servicemembers whose trash was burned in open pits experienced a significant decrease in fitness and increase in medical symptoms lasting more than a month. Her results, she said, confirmed her hypothesis.

Incoming Democrats with significant national security experience plan to challenge President Donald Trump over orders he has issued as commander in chief, starting with his controversial military deployment to the southern border to face down migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

Chemicals associated with firefighting foam once used at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis have been detected in groundwater on and near the military installation, prompting requests by state officials for more tests and a study to determine the extent of the toxic plume.

President Donald Trump isn't committing to a previous pledge to keep chief of staff John Kelly for the remainder of his term, part of widespread speculation about staffing changes that could soon sweep through his administration.

With Navy veteran Gil Cisneros' victory, Democrats will constitute the entirety of Orange County's seven-member congressional delegation, the first time since the 1930s the Republican Party will have no GOP representative in the House.

A total of 530 veterans received a wide range of services -- from medical and dental care, to clothing and food, to haircuts and counseling -- during the seventh annual Santa Barbara County Veterans Stand Down.

In an interview that aired Sunday, President Donald Trump made clear that the audio recording, supplied by the Turkish government, would not change his decision on how to respond to the Oct. 2 killing, which U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Part of the reason West Chester Twp. veteran Jerry Nelson was chosen as one of Butler County's two Veterans of the Year was his work with Lakota students on several programs the American Legion provides, some of which include college scholarships.

The town of York has a deep commitment to its veterans, with schools holding Veterans Day events, the start of a new tradition of a veterans' breakfast, the well-attended Memorial Day parade and ceremony with a laying of wreaths on the town's war monuments, and more.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has called the migrants’ arrival an “avalanche” that the city is ill-prepared to handle, calculating that they will be in Tijuana for at least six months as they wait to file asylum claims.

The increasing loss of life and property brought about by the Camp and Woolsey wildfires in California has been followed by questions regarding what ignited those catastrophes. Investigators were trying to find the answers even before they were asked.

The first black person elected sheriff in Birmingham, Ala., sees himself as part of a new wave of officers and court officials tasked with enforcing laws and rebuilding community trust fractured by police shootings, mass incarceration, and uneven enforcement that critics call racist.

Julian Assange, who has taken cover in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted asylum, has speculated publicly for years that the Justice Department had brought secret criminal charges against him for revealing highly sensitive government information on his website.

Before he was the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis was a student at Chief Joseph Middle School in Richland, Wash. He paid tribute to those roots on Friday by touring his alma mater and inspiring students.

Democrat Stacey Abrams ended 10 days of postelection drama in Georgia’s closely watched and even more closely contested race Friday evening when she acknowledged that when the state’s final vote gets certified, Republican Brian Kemp will be the next governor.

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Oomar Olivas, a sergeant in the Colorado Army National Guard , accidentally left his garage door open Sunday night after celebrating Veterans Day with family and friends. When he awoke the next morning a "go-bag" containing his military uniform, some warm clothes and a journal detailing his experiences while deployed in Afghanistan was gone.

From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, President Donald Trump said Saturday he had to come to the heart of California's killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape.

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said Saturday that it's problematic that American tech companies don't want to work with the Pentagon but are willing to engage with the Chinese.

The sharply contrasting outcomes that resulted on Election Day in Pennsylvania and North Carolina illustrate the importance of how political lines are drawn — and the stakes for the nation because that process helps determine which party controls Congress.

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Jack Schwartz of Hanford was still working at age 102. The community-minded veteran's last civic service was serving on his city's parks and recreation commission into last year. He was living independently until he was admitted to the hospital two days before he died.

The night started with drinking and watching movies at a friend's off-base townhouse. It ended, after a brief manhunt, when the unarmed Navy Seaman Robert "Colton" Wright was fatally shot inside the F/A-18 E Super Hornet hangar where he worked, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report on his death.

Thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs health benefits have been given a green light to sue the military, under a ruling by a federal judge in Connecticut.

When 21-year-old Christopher Precopia met with a recruiter to enlist in the U.S. Army in October, he was rejected because of the violent offense for which he'd been charged last year. Except there was one problem: Precopia didn't do it.

House Resolution 2315 would posthumously award each of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive.

President Donald Trump said Friday he had "very easily" answered written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller, though he speculated that the questions had been "tricked up" to try to catch him in a lie.

federal judge Friday eased release terms for would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr., saying he has suffered no relapses since leaving a government psychiatric hospital in 2016, 35 years after he shot President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington hotel.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, though a lawsuit over the credentials' revocation is continuing.

Military representatives from Germany and Italy joined U.S. Army officials Thursday at Fort Riley’s Post Cemetery. German Army Col. Carsten Döding said the annual ceremony serves as an important historical reminder for all military service members.

The number of people unaccounted for grew from 631 on Thursday night to more than 1,000 on Friday, but Sheriff Kory Honea said the list was dynamic and could easily contain duplicate names and unreliable spellings of names.

The DOD also has $343 million worth of projects under construction on post. Current and upcoming projects include a huge entertainment complex anchored by a Movie Tavern; a new Express store and a mini mall.

U.S. officials say the theft took a year to pull off and involved commercial spies, a Chinese-backed company, a Taiwanese chipmaker and employees affiliated with Micron Technology, a U.S.-based microchip behemoth.

Over four decades, as they have built new lives, Jonestown massacre survivors have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism.

President Donald Trump on Friday recognized a major Republican Party donor and six other "extraordinary Americans" with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the nation reserves for a civilian.

More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for after a deadly Northern California wildfire, but authorities warned Friday that the roster is fluid and contains "raw data," including the names of people who are safe.

For more than two and a half years, federal officials had been missing from all the public meetings and press conferences held since Newburgh, N.Y. closed its primary water supply due to PFOS contamination, and the state identified Stewart Air National Guard Base as the source of the toxic chemical.

On Thursday, firefighters reported progress in battling the nearly 220-square-mile blaze that displaced 52,000 people and destroyed more than 9,500 homes. It was 40 percent contained, fire officials said

A Sept. 11 trial prosecutor on Thursday read aloud ghastly descriptions of what the CIA did to its prisoners: An alleged plot mastermind was taken nude from interrogation to a medical officer, who put fluids up his rectum then returned him nude to interrogation.

Members of a migrant caravan started to meet some local resistance as they continued to arrive by the hundreds in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where a group of residents clashed with migrants camped out by the U.S. border fence.

The cost to create President Donald Trump's space force could be lower than $5 billion and certainly will be in the single-digit billions, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said at a briefing Thursday, pushing back against Air Force estimates that put the price tag at $13 billion or more.

With at least 130 people still missing, National Guard troops searched Wednesday through charred debris for more victims of California's deadliest wildfire as top federal and state officials toured the ruins of a community completely destroyed by the flames.

The approved legislation authorizes the entry into Uruguay of three U.S. fuel cargo aircraft, two transport aircraft and three AWACS planes as well as 400 U.S. military personnel and civilians who would be the crew and provide support and maintenance.

An Air Force plane made an emergency landing at McClellan Airfield Wednesday afternoon, leaving one servicemember hospitalized with what a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman called a “very minor injury.”

Sea-Tac International Airport and Alaska Airlines are reviewing security procedures in the wake of an incident last August in which a ground crew member started a commercial plane, took off and later crashed in what appears to have been a suicide.

The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told senators Thursday that employees' morale has suffered because of the bitter political climate, and he apologized for sending a tweet in 2015 that suggested renaming the Democratic Party as the "NeoKlanist" party.

Michael Avenatti, who skyrocketed to fame as a critic of President Donald Trump and the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested Wednesday and booked on a felony domestic violence charge, Los Angeles police said.